Professor Richard Upward
Professor of Labour Economics
University of Nottingham, School of Economics
Professional career and research topics
Richard Upward studied economics at the University of Bristol and the University of Oxford. After completing his master’s degree in 1993, he received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Manchester in 1998.
In 2001 Richard Upward joined the University of Nottingham as a research fellow and became a lecturer. He has been Professor of Labour Economics at the University of Nottingham since 2014.
He was appointed an IAB Research Fellow in 2024.
Richard Upward‘s research is on labour economics (search and matching, globalisation and labour markets, job loss and worker turnover) and applied econometrics (panel data, linked employer-employee data, duration modelling, treatment evaluation).
He has published in numerous major journals such as European Economic Review, Economics Letters, Journal for Labor Market Research, Journal of Comparative Economics and Journal of the European Economic Association.